Guess what?
Smoking marijuana doesn't cause cancer.
Not even among heavy users - and when I say heavy, I mean upwards of 22,000 joints in a person's life. That's more than two joints EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR 30 YEARS.
This contrasts sharply with the well-known effects of tobacco use.
Eminent, highly regarded Doctor Donald Tashkin, a UCLA pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years, says smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer. In fact, in Tashkin's published findings, he states,
"What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some
protective effect."
Apparently, it may even be the compound THC (tetrahyrocannabinol - one of the mind affecting ingredients in marijuana) which prevents aging cells from becoming cancerous.
Yes, MARIJUANA may in fact PROTECT you from CANCER.
Of course, I'm not trying to tell you that smoking ANYTHING can't hurt you - oxygen deprivation alone is a good reason to seek alternative methods of ingestion - but the government and all the ultra-conservative people trying to paint good ol' ganja as satan's little helper just ran into a big wall of reality. Extra sweet to all protectors of cultural sanity is the fact that Dr. Donald Tashkin's research has, in the past, been used by drug agencies and the government to indicate how harmful marijuana use can be. If you have any idea of the lengths to which federal prosecutors will go to squash opposition and tout their own sources, you will know that this is a huge blow to the credibility of those who carried Tashkin on their shoulders as a weapon in the (failed) "War on Drugs."
So, I'll climb down off my soapbox now.. You don't need a podium when everyone knows the truth already.
Namaste,
Steve.
